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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
for the
Quarter ending 29th June, 1872.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS, WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,—
In the Quarter that ended on Saturday, June 29, 1872,
the births registered in the Whitechapel District were 684;—viz., 387 males
and 307 females. During the same period the deaths have been 564, of
these 320 have been of males and 344 of females. In the corresponding
Quarter of the previous year, the births were 569 and the deaths 557.
There has been, therefore, an increase of 115 in the number of births,
and an increase of 7 in the number of deaths.
The deaths in the London Hospital have been 150, viz., 98 males
and 52 females. Of the total deaths in this institution there were 14 of
persons resident within the District, 94 of non-residents, and 42 of persons
who died either suddenly or from the result of accident. The total
mortality of this District is increased by the deaths of residents within
the District which have occurred in other hospitals in the Metropolis;
but of those I have no complete record. There was one death of a nonresident
from typhoid fever in the London Hospital during this Quarter:
six deaths occurred in this institution from pyaemia.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 69, viz., 40 males and 29
females. No death from epidemic disease occurred in this establishment.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been
53, viz., 7 from small-pox, 6 from measles, 1 from scarlet-fever, 22 from
whooping-cough, 8 from diarrhoea, and 9 from fever. To the deaths
from small-pox as above recorded there must be added the 2 deaths
which occurred in the Small-pox Hospitals, thus making a total of 9
deaths from small-pox. Two deaths from fever occurred in the Fever
Hospitals, thus making 11 deaths from this disease. There were 7 deaths
from erysipelas, 1 from puerperal fever, 7 from pyaemia, 6 from rheumatism,
and 9 from croup.
In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 85; viz., 42 from small-pox, 14 from measles, 1
from scarlet-fever, 11 from whooping-cough, 8 from diarrhœa, and 9 from
fever.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive
of consumption, have been 85: of these 41 were caused by bronchitis, 35
by pneumonia, 1 by laryngismus, 3 by pleuritis, and 5 by asthma.
The deaths from tubercular diseases were 105, viz., 15 from mesenteric
disease, 7 from tubercular meningitis, 3 from hydrocephalus, or
water on the brain, 2 from scrofula, and 78 from consumption.
Diseases of the organs of circulation were fatal to 29 persons; of
these 26 died from disease of the heart, and 3 from aneurism.